tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post7364343347384342804..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: 'Insights' from Israel by Terri Butler MPMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-87135868329647819542016-05-15T14:06:43.911+10:002016-05-15T14:06:43.911+10:00My god I have just read this speech and to think T...My god I have just read this speech and to think Terri Butler has aligned herself with the Labor left...saddens me the complicity and duplicitous nature of women who fly the flag high regarding the rights and interests of women and children...what this speech illustrates aside from a complete lack of understanding of the key issues in relation to the conflict between Israel and neighbouring Arab states (land theft, genocide, acculturation and the denigration of a sovereign peoples)<br />is that the rights and interests of women and children are protected by exception! that is don't worry about our Palestinian sisters and their children. Shameful!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18381973593436967676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-10825424056630089772016-02-14T07:50:39.724+11:002016-02-14T07:50:39.724+11:00Yes, David, how absurd of that young Pole, David G...Yes, David, how absurd of that young Pole, David Grun of Plonsk, to try to forge a non-existent connection between his mob and Palestine. We all know better now of course, don't we? But then, it played well for a time with the West, didn't it, and that was the point, right?<br /><br />Not sure what your point is with the Jabotinsky quote. Funny that Arab editor talking about 'Eretz Israel', eh? MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-35516891696311179462016-02-13T16:20:35.961+11:002016-02-13T16:20:35.961+11:00Thanks for that most interesting perspective, Davi...Thanks for that most interesting perspective, David, but please explain, if you don't mind, these words of David Ben-Gurion: <br /><br />"The agricultural community that the Arabs found in Eretz Israel in the 7th century was none other than the Hebrew farmers that remained on their land despite all the persecution and oppression of the Roman and Byzantine emperors. Some of them accepted Christianity.... After the Arab conquest, the Arabic language and Muslim religion spread gradually among the countrymen... The greater majority... of the Muslim falahin in western Eretz Israel present to us one racial strand and a whole ethnic unit, and there is no doubt that much Jewish blood flows in their veins..." ('Leverur Motsa Ha'Falahim,' Luach Achiezer, New York, 1917, pp 118-27MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-567410685298554682016-02-13T15:08:00.253+11:002016-02-13T15:08:00.253+11:00The traditional owners of the land are the Jews. I...The traditional owners of the land are the Jews. It is not helpful to be promoting propaganda myths about the so-called Palestinian people, who had no national identity until the 1960s when Arafat got into bed with the KGB.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217839380586442574noreply@blogger.com